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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below."
"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
"That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way."
"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear."
"The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it."
"I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition."
"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way."
"Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect."
"Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce."
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